Somerset College Inter-House Chess, August 2010

Senior Inter-House Competition

Andrews have ended Franklin’s domination of the senior inter-house competition with a convincing win last Friday. All 6 members of the Andrews team, plus their two reserves have a rating of 1000+. There would be very few schools in Australia with 8 players rated 1000+, let alone from one house! Well done to Jonas Muller, Molly McGarity, Alan Lam, Calvin Zhang, Maxine Tan and Henry Leef.

Double points were awarded on Friday to add to the points scored in the participation event during term 2.

 

Term 1

Friday  

 Total

Andrews

25.5

42.0

67.5

Franklin 

21.0

33.0

54.0

Veivers

25.5

19.0

44.5

Starkey 

23.5

10.0

33.5 

Laver  

 9.0

16.0

25.5

It was great to see Kevin Tuffan back in to chess, having left Somerset to live in Jakarta in 2004, and returned this year. Best performers on Friday were Jonas Muller, Alan Lam, Maxine Tan, Henry Leef and Nick Beresford who all scored 4/4. Kevin Tuffan scored 3/3 and Kantley Wu 3.5/4.

Primary Inter-House Competition

Franklin won the primary comp on count-back from Andrews. The match between Franklin and Andrews finished 3-3, with two closely contested draws ultimately deciding the competition. Kevin Song and Anneliese McConnell held on grimly for draws in losing positions.

 

 

Team Points

Individual Points (Countback)

Franklin 

 7 18.5

Andrews

 7 17.0

Veivers

 3 8.5

Laver  

 2 8.0

 Starkey

 1 8.0

 

Daniel Arase and Omar Wood both scored 4/4, with Harrison Leckenby, Nikolas Frauenfelder and Kevin Song all scoring 3.5/4. Nikolas is the fastest improving junior at present, with Nalin Batra, Mohnish Chand, Nathaniel Soh and Javis Lim also improving rapidly.